On Monday 25 December 2006 21:45, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
Also let the hardware vendor know why you are not buying an incompatible hardware part. Believe me it works. If enough people complain, the message does go through the vendors eventually to the manufacturers. No wonder Dlink and Samsung are complying (or even attracting) Linux users.
Exactly, this is what I do everytime I want to buy anything new. Originally, my supplier had NO IDEA what Linux was and over the past 2-3 years that I have been insisting on Linux compatible hardware he has learnt a lot about it. And believe me, many of his clients ( corporate ) have now started to insist on Linux compatible hardware so the message is getting through to even the local vendors and eventually to the big companies ;).